Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest

For the actor, son of the subject of this article, see Adolphus Vane-Tempest.

Lord Adolphus Frederick Charles William Vane-Tempest (2 July 1825 – 11 June 1864),^[1] known until 1854 as Lord Adolphus Vane,^[2] was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

He was the fourth child (and second son) of Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry.

In December 1852, he was elected at a by-election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham, but the election was overturned on petition the next year.^[3]

In 1854 he was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as MP for North Durham after the death of his father, filling the seat vacated by his elder brother George Vane-Tempest, Viscount Seaham, who succeeded to the peerage as Earl Vane. He held the seat until his death in 1864,^[3] aged 38.

During the enthusiasm for the Volunteer Movement in 1859–60, although his brothers were connected with the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps formed at the family's Seaham Colliery, Lord Adolphus raised and commanded an infantry corps, the Sunderland Rifles.^[4][5]

According to Anne Isba, author and Victorian Studies scholar, Vane was "notoriously unstable" and was "described by Queen Victoria as having 'a natural tendency to madness.' Vane, who on one occasion violently attacked his wife and infant son, died four years later during a struggle with four keepers."^[6]

He had one son, Adolphus Vane-Tempest, born 4 January 1863.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest

16. Colonel William Stewart, of Ballylawn 8. Alexander Stewart, of Mount Stewart 17. Frances Stewart 4. Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry 18. John Cowan 9. Mary Cowan 19. Anne Stewart 2. Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry 20. Sir John Pratt 10. Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden 21. Elizabeth Wilson 5. Lady Frances Pratt 22. Nicholas Jeffreys 11. Elizabeth Jeffreys 1. Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest 24. George Vane 12. Sir Henry Vane, 1st Baronet 25. Anne Machon 6. Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet 26. John Tempest, MP 13. Frances Tempest 27. Frances Shuttleworth 3. Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest 28. Alexander MacDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim 14. Randal William MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim 29. Anne Plunkett 7. Anne MacDonnell, 2nd Countess of Antrim 30. Hervey Morres, 1st Viscount Mountmorres 15. The Hon. Letitia Morres 31. Lady Letitia Ponsonby

References

1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
2. "Lord Adolphus Vane". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 19 April 2009.
3. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 118, 382. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
4. Ray Westlake, Tracing the Rifle Volunteers, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, ISBN 978 1 84884 211 3, p. 75.
5. Ian F.W. Beckett, Riflemen Form: A study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982, ISBN 0 85936 271 X, p. 62.
6. Anne Isba, Gladstone and Women, 2006, p.96

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Atherton Thomas Colpitts Granger	Member of Parliament for City of Durham 1852–1853 With: William Atherton	Succeeded by William Atherton John Mowbray
Preceded by Robert Duncombe Shafto George Vane-Tempest, Viscount Seaham	Member of Parliament for North Durham 1854–1864 With: Robert Duncombe Shafto	Succeeded by Robert Duncombe Shafto Sir Hedworth Williamson